Don Verdean: Christian, Charlatan, Archeologist
Has anybody seen this? Currently, it has 30% on Rotten Tomatoes. Here is the promo:Hired by an ambitious small-town pastor to find sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self-proclaimed Biblical...
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Variant Versification
Robert Stephens’s 1551 edition was the first to add verses to the NT.A few days ago I stumbled across a case of differing versification. If you check your NA or SBLGNT, you’ll find that the phrase...
View ArticleGospel of Judas Documentary (Indiana Wesleyan University)
I am really impressed with my eight Indiana Wesleyan University John Wesley Honors College students who created the documentary below as part of their HNR 325 Honors Research Tutorial class. I prefer...
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Marc Polonsky Talk on the ‘Digitisation of Cultural Heritage’
Of interest to those readers forced to live in Oxford.The Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles is pleased to welcome Marc Polonsky, trustee of the Polonsky Foundation, who will deliver a talk on...
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Why the Complutensian Polyglot Did Not Use Greek Accents for the NT
From John Lee’s translation (emphasis added):John 1.1-14. Note the dot under the superscript ‘c’ before εγεννηθησαν in the second line from the bottom.So that you may not be surprised, diligent...
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Fun Fact Friday
Tregelles’s 1549 Stephanus GNTDallas Theological Seminary’s Turpin Library owns a copy of Robert Stephanus’s 1549 Greek New Testament that was once own by Samuel P. Tregelles and was then given, by his...
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News Flash: Two-Weeks Excavation in the Cave of Sculls
My friend Alison Schofield reports that she will be joining a new excavation that is now taking place in a remote Dead Sea cave after a previously-unknown papyrus manuscript was found there by...
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A Similarity between Reasoned Eclecticism & Byzantine Priority
Here’s something that two otherwise competing methods of New Testament textual criticism agree on, at least according to their two main proponents. Both reasoned eclecticism and the Byzantine priority...
View ArticleTyndale cries tears of blood...
Should we be concerned about the new emoji Bible? Yes, very concerned, I think. Read the whole story, here:Steven Lawson, "Portrait Of William Tyndale Begins Crying Blood After Release Of ‘Emoji...
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Reading Hidden Text with X-Rays
12th c. binding material in a 16th c. manuscript (photo credit).The Guardian reported this weekend on a relatively new technique for reading metallic inks in book bindings macro x-ray fluorescence...
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Other Text Critical Blogs Worth Noting
Besides the world-famous ETC blog, there are a number of other blogs that cover textual criticism. I’ve added these to the list of Biblioblogs in the sidebar so they should come up there whenever...
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The Owner of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Unveiled
Walter Fritz, owner of the GJW (photo credit).Wow. The most recent issue of The Atlantic has an incredible story uncovering the formerly anonymous owner of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife papyrus. His name...
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More on the Gospel of Jesus Wife and Walter Fritz
Peter Gentry has just blogged on Ariel Sabar's Atlantic article on Walter Fritz. Apparently, Fritz admitted in writing that he is the owner of the Gospel of Jesus Wife papyrus. Among other...
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Psalm 9.22-26 in a Newly Published 4th-Century Papyrus
(photo credit)The latest issue of Vetus Testamentum has an article by Klaas A. Worp on a new 4th century copy of Psalm 9.22–26 [LXX]; 10.1–5 [ET]. The abstract:First edition of a Psalm fragment on a...
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Weekend Links: Autographs, Bible Formatting, and Snapp's New Books
A couple links for your weekend reading.Timothy Mitchell whose blog I mentioned earlier has a fresh article in JETSon just what we mean by “autograph” in debates about inerrancy. He concludes that “in...
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Just How Much Longer Is Codex Bezae’s Text in Acts?
Acts 1 in Bezae. (Photo)It’s frequently reported that the text of Acts is longer in the Western text than in the Alexandrian. But just how much longer is it? The most commonly cited number is 8.5%....
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International SBL Papers
A reader of the blog reminds me that the International SBL meeting starts next week in Seoul, South Korea. There are two text critical sections in the line up.Greek New Testament Manuscripts Pasi...
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Codex Rossanensis Restored
The following is a guest post from Elijah Hixson. Elijah is currently writing his doctoral thesis on Codex Rossanensis and two other purple codices at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision...
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What Motivated Bengel
Here is a good word from Bengel for your weekend.Human selections of sayings and examples, taken from Scripture, have their use; the study, however, of the Sacred Volume, should not end here; for it...
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Manuscript Quiz
I’ve just returned from a week in Ferrara, Italy presenting on the CBGM. It was a great time despite the heat. While there I had the chance to look at Ferrara’s complete collection of Greek New...
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